How to customize Red Hat Certificate System root Certificate Authority signing cert validity dates and extensions?
Issue
There are currently no options in the web based configuration wizard to specify custom signing certificate validity dates and extensions for a Red Hat Certificate System (RHCS) root Certificate Authority (CA).
It is important to be able to customize a root Certificate Authority (CA) characteristics, not just those of subordinate CA's, servers and users certificates.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Directory Server 8
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redhat-ds-base-8.2.11-16.el5dsrv
- Red Hat Certificate System 8
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pki-ca-8.1.6-1.el5pki.noarch.rpm
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